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drewwilson··on Plasso: Payments Made Simple
Thanks for the discussion everyone one :) Glad you feel its worth talking about!

A little history just for fun:

- I launched: http://quixly.com back in 2010 after a year in development. It was the first app i had seen that got rid of the idea of a shopping cart and let you pay URLs.

- Then I launched Space Box in 2012. The goal was to make Stripe user friendly for the non-developer.

- Plasso is now the first step in something bigger I want to tackle. It's my host desire to replace paypal... but i've got a ways to go. Still need to polish the selling tools on Plasso.. then attack the buyer's side of things.

I've been at the digital delivery game since 2009 really, its fun, but a lot of work. I really love Plasso (obviously ;) and my favorite thing about it, which sheds light on it's future is the 'Pay Me' feature: http://plasso.co/drew@drewwilson.com have people pay you easy peasy. Soon to have bank & bit coin transfers!

Anywho.. i hope this is the start of something big. We'll see.

drewwilson··on How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days
You can visit the app directly here: https://spacebox.io
drewwilson··on How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days
Ya, wufoo does it too. But my app is free :) and in the near future will have useful analytics and CSS customization, etc for pro users.
drewwilson··on Why is there no Facebook for programmers & hackers?
Answer: http://dialog.gs Launching this week :)
drewwilson··on Pictos Icon Font Server
You can use this CSS rule to make them look like Photoshop:

-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;

only works in webkit, which is most all mobile and chrome/safari.

drewwilson··on Pictos Icon Font Server
Everything is cached and served very quickly. The main advantage is you can change the icons on the fly at no additional cost. If you update your interface, add new icons or remove some, you can make those changes in that app and you don't even need to grab a new code snippet.

If you want to serve them yourself, that option is there as well. Thanks!!

drewwilson··on Pictos Icon Font Server
If you click the "See Examples" button, you can view the font being used. Thanks!!
drewwilson··on Pictos Icon Font Server
Yes it's very true. All the customers in that list are people who have purchased my icon sets. Some of them use then in internal tools, some use them for their public website or mobile apps. Thanks!
drewwilson··on Pictos Icon Font Server
Nope :) There is no JS involved. Its a straight CSS file. Browser detection is done on the server by checking the headers. it's lightning fast :)
drewwilson··on Pictos Icon Font Server
Ya good question :) I built the marketing site before the service was finished. I wanted to launch quickly, so decided to use images instead of the font so I could focus on getting the app finished. Also, I sell the icons as PNGs and vectors, so it's showing customers that as well. Thanks!!